spätabends

[ʃpɛːtˈʔabn̩t͡s]

/[ʃpɛːtˈʔabn̩t͡s]/ adv

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The verdict

“spätabends” is uncommon German (frequency #75,077 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,077
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - am späten Abend

Corpus desk

Index DE-spatabends · spätabends · German

spätabends · rank #75,077 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,077
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Staatsbürgerin

Nearest frequency peer: Staatsbürgerin (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „spätabends“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „spätabends“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for spätabends
PropertyValue
Headwordspätabends
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdverb
IPA[ʃpɛːtˈʔabn̩t͡s]
Letters10
Frequency rank#75,077
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „spätabends“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).spätabendsfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Staatsbürgerin“ (#75,078), „sprinten“ (#75,075), „stabilere“ (#75,079). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „spätabends“ bei #75,077. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

spätabends is uncommon German at frequency #75,077 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed [ʃpɛːtˈʔabn̩t͡s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "am späten Abend".

No misspelling variants are generated for spätabends in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is spätabends, spelled S-P-Ä-T-A-B-E-N-D-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    am späten Abend

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how spätabends appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Als Humboldt spätabends vom Empfang beim Bürgermeister heimkam, wollte sein Gastgeber mit ihm trinken.“

Antonyms

frühmorgens

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "spätabends"?
"spätabends" is spelled S-P-Ä-T-A-B-E-N-D-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃpɛːtˈʔabn̩t͡s].
What does "spätabends" mean?
As an adverb, "spätabends" means: am späten Abend
How do you pronounce "spätabends"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "spätabends" is [ʃpɛːtˈʔabn̩t͡s]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "spätabends" come from?
"spätabends" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "spätabends", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Sportgerät#75,074statisches#75,084Spannkraft#75,068souveränes#75,065

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list